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Ms. Carolyn Mitchell Olmsted Medal Nominations American Society of Landscape Architects 636 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-3736 Ms. Carolyn Mitchell Olmsted Medal Nominations American Society of Landscape Architects 636 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-3736 Dear Ms. Mitchell, It is my pleasure to nominate Renata von Tscharner for ASLA’s Olmsted Medal in recognition of her continuing environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship. For over 30 years, Renata has dedicated her life to improving the quality of life for local residents through her stewardship of Greater Boston’s Charles River Parklands. Like other exceptional leaders and stewards of public lands, Renata von Tscharner is a determined self-starter, an accomplished, energetic instigator, and in fact a visionary. Trained as an architect and city planner at the Institute of Technology in Zurich, Renata then moved to London to work on the Greater London Council’s Covent Garden team. Another aspect of her European background would also influence her in years to come; growing up in the Emmental, and when later living in Basel, Zurich and Bern, Renata loved to swim in the rivers that flow through these cities. In 1979, Renata immigrated to the United States and co-founded the Townscape Institute. In her 15 years as principal there she worked in about 100 cities and towns across America and Europe. With close to 20 years experience as an urban designer, working on and writing about public spaces and "place making" in both Europe and the United States, she has developed a passion for places where beauty and pleasure converge. In her adopted home of Boston, as she traversed the water and shore of the state-owned parklands along of the Charles River, she began to wonder why this magnificent public space and powerful focal point of the greater Boston region was crumbling and overgrown, and who was "in charge” of seeing to its care. In this way her volunteer vocation, as a steward of public lands, began. Used by well over a million people each year, the 19 miles of shoreline within the Charles River Parklands include some 500 acres, and are host to many major events including the Head of the Charles Regatta, the annual 4th of July concert at the Hatch Shell, walk-a-thons, races and river fairs. As her experience with the river grew, the influence on her of the green and blue band winding its way through residential and commercial neighborhoods towards the harbor grew stronger. She started to research the genesis of the Parklands, which landscape architects Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmsted had created mostly from mudflats, tidal marshes and industrial sites. As a way to further her research on the Charles and to share the compelling call of the Charles with others, Renata approached Harvard University and proposed a course on the Charles River for their Radcliffe Seminars Landscape Program, where she had taught “Townscape” courses two decades earlier. The proposal to look at all aspects of these 500 acres of parklands along both sides of the most urban ten-miles of the Charles was accepted. As part of her preparation for teaching she also went to scores of meetings and read everything she could about the river and surrounding parklands. For her student projects she selected sites where their designs could make a real difference. While she loved the challenge of working with students, her research led her to the conclusion that if the larger potential of the Charles River Parklands was to be realized, what was needed was the concerted, committed and ongoing efforts of a private, non-profit entity. Among its many tasks would be a working partnership with the public agency charged with stewardship of the Charles; now the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). Renata sought to create nothing less than a new vision for these parklands, a vision inclusive of much of the planning done by the DCR and many others. She saw one of her roles as lending support to planning officials in public sector agencies. But she also began to espouse a vision that went further. Maintenance, restoration and new parks needed the infusion not just of money but of the participatory and passionate efforts of thousands of citizens. Starting with a symposium in 1999 attended by 75 civic leaders, landscape activists and environmentalists, Renata launched the Charles River Conservancy. It was founded as an advocacy group dedicated to the management and enhancement, of the Charles River Parklands and their surroundings, particularly parks, parkways, pathways and bridges. Her goal for the Conservancy is to facilitate stewardship and renewal efforts by approaching them from all sides – legislative initiatives, educational and awareness programs, funding partnerships between public and private organizations, and coalition building within the community. Further, she began to promote the addition of new amenities to the Parklands, with swimming opportunities and a new skatepark at the top of the list. “The parklands have to be attractive and active”. In the years since its founding, the Conservancy has sponsored legislative briefings and formed alliances with the DCR and many other groups. It has garnered support from the business and academic communities, as well as from a wider public, with upwards of XXX citizen supporters. Today, the Charles River Conservancy is a well-established and influential organization with a full-time staff of five and funding from foundations and corporations. The Conservancy now offers educational resources to school children throughout the metropolitan area. Through an extensive volunteer program, the Conservancy has assumed responsibility for the maintenance of much of the green spaces within the Parkland. Perhaps most importantly, the CRC promotes extensive, effective outreach about the benefits and uses Charles River Parklands to the entire Greater Boston community. A constant stream of special events, online newsletters, articles in local papers and media appearances by Conservancy staff and members are designed to highlight the Parklands in the public eye. In a city obsessed with the Big Dig, the Charles River Parklands are no longer forgotten. It is not only her daily stewardship of the Charles River Parklands that makes her deserving of the Olmstead award, but also her vision to expand upon the legacy of Charles Eliot, whose vision of a comprehensive park system built on a grand scale has sustained and enriched us all with the creation of green space throughout greater Boston. Through her work and leadership at the Charles River Conservancy, Renata has become a force to reckon with in the parklands community. Advocating for pathway improvements, gaining municipal and civilian support for the creation of underpasses along 8 miles of pathways on the Boston side of the Charles, and raising $2.5 million and breaking ground for the creation of a world-class skatepark are just a few of the ways her extraordinary leadership has influenced the Charles River Parklands. Also, thanks to Renata’s vision of one day being able to swim in the Charles River, the Governor appointed the Charles River Water Quality Commission to study the feasibility of bringing swimming back to the Charles. A CRC staff member supports the Commission and in 2013, the Conservancy hopes to offer the first public swims in the Charles River since the 1950’s. Re-establishing a visceral link between the people and the Parklands is very much a goal of Renata's efforts. "By physically working along the glittering water and caring for their public land, these volunteers become long term park lovers and landscape advocates," she notes. Another facet of Renata’s vision and ability to marshal diverse elements in service to Parklands renewal lies in her contributions to and use of the award-winning “Inventing the Charles River,” a profusely illustrated book by landscape architect and urban planner, Karl Haglund. The ASLA honored this book with the Communication Award- and this confirmed Renata’s goal that the more people know about the Charles River Parklands, the more they care for them. In addition to the broad vision and substantial energy Renata brings to her work, she has been vigilant in building a strong organization. The influence of the Charles River Conservancy has grown far beyond that of most "Friends" groups. The media has become vastly more sensitized to the value and needs of the Parklands, with hundreds of articles and community TV broadcasts since 2000. The Charles River Parklands are, if their founders and Renata von Tscharner’s Charles River Conservancy are to be taken on their face, “democracy’s common ground,” a description imbued with hope for a civil society and a dynamic future. “ Park stewardship works better when people can participate with the bodies and their hearts: exercise, community, learning, food and fun” It is this broader vision of stewardship that Renata has brought to the Charles River Parklands. We are thankful and proud to have Renata von Tscharner working among us as a steward of public land. Sincerely, Kathleen Ogden, President Boston Society of Landscape Architects Jay Baldwin 92 Foster St Cambridge MA 02138 Ms. Carolyn Mitchell Olmsted Medal Nominations American Society of Landscape Architects 636 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-3736 Dear Ms. Mitchell: I am very happy and enthusiastic to offer a letter in support of Renata von Tscharner’s nomination for the Olmsted Medal. I have had the pleasure of serving with her on The Charles River Conservancy’s (CRC) Board for the past 10 years. Renata is a vigilant and determined advocate for our wonderful parklands along The Charles River. Her awareness of the landscape, pathways, vistas, playgrounds and common spaces sets her apart in setting in motion the design and maintenance solutions that keep these parklands in the best possible conditions given the Massachusetts DCR’s very limited funds.
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